Quotes about Perspective
I realized then that a man who had lived only one day could easily live for a hundred years in prison. He would have enough memories to keep him from being bored
— Albert Camus
A glimpse is not a vision. But to a man on a mountain road by night, a glimpse of the next three feet of road may matter more than a vision of the horizon.
— CS Lewis
Man is the center of a circle without a circumference, except the one he creates for himself.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Man can see his reflection in water only when he bends down close to it, and the heart of man, too, must lean down to the heart of his fellow; then it will see itself within his heart.
— Hannah More
Knowledge is to be acquired only by a corresponding experience. How can we know what we are told merely? Each man can interpret another's experience only by his own.
— Henry David Thoreau
Really great things, when discussed by little men, can usually make such men grow big.
— St. Augustine
No man is safe above but he that will gladly be beneath.
— Thomas a Kempis
If you've got a billion dollars and you're ungrateful, you're a poor man. If you have very little but you're grateful for what you have, you're truly rich.
— Tony Robbins
Men seek fame and high places only to learn that they were happier in obscurity
— Vance Havner
I am convinced that the air we normally breathe is a kind of water, and men and women are a species of fish.
— DH Lawrence
What is essential in the life of a man of my kind is what he thinks and how he thinks, and not what he does or suffers.
— Albert Einstein
To get even near humility, even for a moment, is like a drink of cold water to a man in a desert.
— CS Lewis